Judge N. Randy Smith - October 5, 2011

The Honorable N. Randy Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, will lecture on “Judicial Independence,” Wednesday, October 5 at 7 PM in the Bistline Theatre of the Performing Arts Center. A reception honoring Judge Smith will be held before the lecture at 6PM in the promenade by the Bistline Theatre. Tickets for the lecture are free and tickets for the reception are $20. All tickets may be picked up at the Library Circulation desk (208) 282-3248 or obtained by calling the Friends Of Oboler Library office at (208) 282-2997. (poster)

Judge Smith was one of three judges during the hearing on December 6, 2010, before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals about Proposition 8 in San Francisco.

Judge Smith is an adjunct faculty member of the ISU College of Business and the ISU College of Arts & Letters and has been since 1993. He joined the 9th Circuit court in 2007 after being nominated by President George W. Bush. Smith earned his bachelor’s and law degrees from Brigham Young University. He served as chairman of the Idaho Republican Party in the 1990s and began his career on the bench in 1995 as a trial court judge. He had previously served in the Idaho Sixth Judicial District as district judge and felony drug court judge. He was 2005 recipient of ISU’s Statesman of the Year award. (ISU press Release, Tues., Nov. 30, 2010.)